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A MiW IIEI'I.ARVTIOY OK INDEI'KN'-
m:\cn.
St. Louis. Juno 28. —Tho Conxon
tion was called to order at 2:15 J”. m.
Judge Meredith, ot Virginia,
Chairman of the Committee on Reso
lutions, presented a report stating
that a great many resolutions were
presented, all of which hail been
carefully examined and discussed,
before codling to an agreement. He
then requested Mr. Dorsheimer to
read it to tho Convention as follows:
THE I'LATPOBM.
We, the delegates of the Democrat
ic party of the United States, in Na
tional Convention assembled, do
here declare the administration of
tho Federal Government to be in
urgent need of immediate reform,
and do hereby enjoin upon the nom
inees of this Convention and of the
Democratic, party in each State, a
zealous effort and co-operation to
this erul, aud do hereby appeal to
our fellow citizens of every former
political connection to undertake
with us the lirst and most pressing
patriotic duty, for the Democracy of
the whole country.
We do here reaffirm faith
in the permanency of the Federal
Union, our devotion to the Gonstitu
tion of the United States, with its
amendments universally accepted, as
n Until settlement of the controver
sies that engendered civil war, and
do here record'our steadfast conll
i|ence the perpetuity of republican
self-government.
In the absolute acquiescence in
tho will of the majority-the vital
principle of the republic; in the su
premacy of the civil over tho milita
ry authority; in the total separation
of Church and State, for the sake
alike of civil and religious freedom;
in the equality of all citizens before
just laws of their own enactment; in
the liberty of individual conduct, uti
vexed by sumptuary laws; in the
faithful education of the rising gen
eration, that they may preserve, en
joy and transmit these best condi
tions of human happiness and hope,
we behold the noblest products of a
hundred years ot changeful history;
hut while upholding the bond of our
Union aud the great charter of
these, our rights, it behooves a. free
people to practice also that eternal,
vigilance, which is the price of liber
ty.
Reform is necessary to rebuild and
establish in the hearts of the whole
people t'e Union, eleven ago
'happily rescued from the danger of a
corrupt centralism, which, after in
dicting upon ten States the rapacity
of carpet-bag tyrannies, has honey
combed the offices of the Federal
Government itself with incapacity,
waste and fraud, infected States and
municipalities with the contagion of
misrule, and locked fast the prosper
ity of an industrious people in the
paralysis of hard times.
Reform is necessary to establish a
sound currency, restore the public
c.reditjand maintain the|natiocal hon
or. We denounce the failure for all
these eleven years to make good the
promise of the legal tender notes
which are a changing standard of
vualue, in tho hands of the people,
and the non-payment of which is
a disregard of the plighted faith of
the nation.
We denounce the improvidence
which, in eleven years of peace, has
taken from the people, m F'ederal
taxes, thirteen times the whole
amount of the legal notes and squan
dered four times the sum in useless
expenses without accumulating any
reserve for their redemption.
We denounce the linancial imbec
ility and immorality of that party
which during eleven years of peace,
has made no advance toward re
sumption, that, instead,has obstruct
ed resumption by wasting our re
sources and exhausting all our sur
plus income, and while annually
professing to intend a speedy return
to specie payment, has annually en
acted fresh hindrances thereto, and
as such a hindrance we denounce
tho resumption clause of ttie act
of 1875, and we here demand its re
peal. ,
We demand a judicious system of
preparation by public economies, by
official retrenchments and by wise
llnauce, which shall enable the na
tion to assure the whole world of its
perfect ability and its perfect readi
ness to meet any of its promises, at the
call of the creditor entitled to pay
ment. We believe such a system
well devised and above all entrusted
to competent hands for execution,
creating at no time an artificial
scarcity of currency aud at'no time
alarming the public mind into a
withdrawal of that vaster machinery
of credit, by which ninety-five per
cent, of business transactions are
performed—a system open to the
public and inspiring general confi
dence—would, from the day os its
adoption, bring healing on its wing
to all our harrassed industries and
set in motion the wheels of com
merce, manufactures and the me
chanical arts, restore employment to
labor and renew, in all its natural
sources, the prosperity of the peo
ple.
Reform is necessary in the sum
and mode of Federal taxation, to the
end that capital be set free from dis
trust and labor lightly burdened.
We denounce the present tariff,
levied upon nearly four thousand ar
ticles, ns a master piece of injustice,
inequality and false pretence. It
yields a dwindling, not a yearly ris
ing revenue; it has impoverished
many industries to subsidize a Jew;
it prohibits imports that might pur-1
chase the products of American la
bor; it has degraded American com- j
merce from the first to the inferior j
rank upon the high seas; it has cut!
down the sales of American manufac
tures at home and abroad and de
pleted the returns of American. agri
culture, an industry followed by half
our people; it costs the people five
times more than it produces to the
Treasury; it obstructs the processes
of production and wastes the fruits
of labor; it promotes fraud, and fos
ters smuggling; enriches dishonest
officials and bankrupts honest mer-
YOL. 2.
chants.
We demand that all custom-house
taxation shall bo only for revenue.
Reform is necessary in the scale of
public expense. Federal, State, and
municipal. Our Federal taxation
has swollen from sixty millions in
gold, iu 1800, to four hundred and fif
ty millions in currency, in 1870, and
our aggregate taxation from one
hundred and eighty-four millions in
gold, in 1800, to seven hundred anil
thirty millions in currency, in
1870, or in one decade
from loss than five dollars
per head, to more than eigh
teen dollars per head. Since the
peace the people have paid to their
tax gatherers more than thrice the
sum of the national debt, and more
than twice that sum for the Federal
Government alone. We demand a
vigorous frugality in every depart
ment, from every officer of tho Gov
ernment.
Reform is necessary to put a stop
to the profligate waste of public
lands and their diversion from act
ual settlers, by party in power, which
has squandered two hundred mil
lions of acres upon railroads alone,
and out of more than thrice that ag
gregate, has disposed of lesss than a
sixth directly to tillers of the soil.
Reform is necessary to correct the
omissions ot tho Republican Con
gress and errors of our treaties and
our diplomacy, which have stripped
our follow citizens of foreign birth
and kindred race, recrossing the At
lantic, of the shield of American cit
izenship, and have exposed our breth
ren of the Pacific coast to the incur
sious of a race not sprung from the
same great parent stock, and, in fact,
now by law denied cititizenship
through naturalization, as beiug
neither accustomed to the traditions
of a progressive civilization, nor ex
ercised in liberty under equal laws.
We denounce ttie policy which thus
discards the liberty loving German
and tolerates the revival of the coolie
trade in Mongolian women imported
for immoral purposes and Mongolian
men, hired to perform servile labor
contracts, and demand such modi
fication of the treaty with tho Chi
nese Empire, or such legislation by
Congress, within a constitutional lim
itation, as shall prevent the further
importation or immigration of the
Mongolian race.
Reform is necessary, aud can never
be effected but by making it the con
trolling issue of tlie elections, lifting
it above the false issues which the
office holding class and the
party iu power seek to smother
it and the false issue with
which they would enkindle |nec
tarian strife in respect to tho pub
lic schools, of which the establish
ment and support belonging exclu
sively to the several States, and
which the Democratic party has cher
ished from their foundation and re
solved to maintain without partiality
or preference for any class, sect or
creed and without contributing from
the Treasury to any; the false issue
by which they seek to light anew the
dying embers of sectional hate be
tween kindred peoples, once unnat
urally estranged,but now reunited in
one indivisible republic and a com
mon destiny.
Reform is unnecessary in the civil
service. Experience proves Jhat an
efficient, and economical conduct of
the governmental business is not
possible, if its civil service be subject
to change at every election; boa
prize fought for at the ballot box, bo
a brief reward of party zeal instead
of honor assigned for proved compe
tency and held for fidelity in the
public employ; that the dispensing
of patronage should neither be a tax
upon the time of all our public
men nor the instrument of their am
bition. jllero again the (professions,
falsified in ( the performance, attest
that the party in power can work
out no practical or salutury reform.
Reform is necessary, even more in
the higher grades of public service.
The President, Vice President,
Judges, Senators, Representatives,
Cabinet officers—these and all others
in authority are the people’s ser
vants. Their offices are not a pri
vate perquisite. They are a public
trust. Whpn tho annals of this re
public show the disgrace and cen
sure of a Vice President; a late
.Speaker of the House of Representa
tives marketing his rulings as a pre
siding officer; three Senators profit
ing secretly by their votes as law ma
kers; five chairmen of the leading
committees of the late House of Rep
resentatives exposed in jobbery; a
late Secretary of the Treasury forg
ing balances in the public accounts;
of a late Attorney-General misappro
priating public funds; a Secretary of
the Navy enriched, or enriching
friends by the percentages levied
upon the profits of contractors with
his department; an ambassador to
England censured in a dishonorable
speculation; the President’s private
secretary barely escaping conviction
on trial for guilty complicity iu
frauds in the revenue; a Secretary of
War impeached for high' crimes and
confessed misdemeanors—tho de
monstration is complete that the
first step in reform must be
the people’s choice of honest
men from another party, lest the dis
ease of our political organization in
fect the body politic and thereby
making no change of men or party
we can get no change of measures
and no reform. All these abuses,
wrongs and crimes are tho product
of sixteen years ascendancy of the
Republicans themselves, but their
reformers are voted down in conven
tion and displaced from the cabinet.
Tho mass of honest voters is power
less to resist the 80,000 officeholders
—its leaders and guides. Reform
can only be had by a peaceful
civil revolution. We demand a
change of system—a change of ad
ministration —a change of parties,
that we may have a change of meas
ures and men.
The reading was frequently inter
rupted by applause. The denuncia
tion of the resumption act and de
mand for its repeal was received
with especial favor. At the conclu
sion, Mr. Dorsheimer said the com
mittee had adopted and endorsed—
though not as a part of the platform
—a resolution, which he read, en
dorsing the action of the House of
Representatives in cutting down ap
propriations. Also, a resolution as
to the just claims of the soldiers and
sailors and widows and orphans.
St. Louis, June 28.—Mr. Ewing, of
Ohio, took the platform and said at
the request of several members of
the Committee, he presented minor
ity report recommendingstrikingout
the following clause in the majority
report, to-wit: “As such a hindrance
we denounce the resumption olause
of the act of 1875, and we demand its
repeal.” He proposed to substitute
therefor the following words: “The
law for the resumption of specie pay
ment on the first of January. 1879,
having been enacted by the Repub
THE TIMES.
COLUMBUS, GA., SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1876.
lican party, without deliberation in
Congress and without discussion be
fore the people, and being both inef
fectual to secure its objeot and high
ly injurious to the business of the
country, should be forthwith re
pealed?’
Mr. Ewing moved and Mr. Eaton,
of Kansas, soconded the motion, that
tho amendment tints suggested be
made.
Mr. Ewing proceeded to state his
objection to the clause proposed to be
stricken out. It denounced only
one clause of the resumption net
that one fixing tho time for resump
tion, thus by implication, leaving
all the rest to stand as unobjectiona
ble. The construction given to this
will be that the Democratic party
wants resumption earlier than 1879.
Another objection is that the reso
lution. as reported, patters with
the question of which it treats.
It commits the party to a reduc
tion of greenbacks aud a perpetua
tion of the National bank system, and
leaves tho Secretary of the Treasury,
perhaps, with the power to issue gold,
awaiting the day of resumption, a
policy which the Western Democracy
almost unanimously oppose. The
resolution of the committee supports,
by implication, a bill for which the
Democrats are not responsible-a
measure which never received a Dem
ocratic vote.
Hero time was called, and much
confusion ensued, in consequence of
efforts to secure inoro time for Mr.
Ewiug. The chair ruled that as ob
jection was made, the time could not
be extended.
Mr. Dorsheimer appealed for a
withdrawal of the objection, and it
was withdrawn, and, by unanimous
consent, Mr. Ewing was authorized
to proceed.
Another scene of confusion ensued.
Mr. McLane, of Maryland, renewed
his objections to hearing Mr. Ewing
further.
Finally Mr. Ewing t hanked the con
vention for the kindly spirit mani
fested toward him, ana that he would
trouble them no further. [Cries for
“Ewing.” “Order! order!”]
Mr. Dorsheimer said lie proposed
right here to make a straight issue
between hard and soft money. [Ap
plause.] By that wo will stand or
fall. If you want soft money give
your votes to the most distinguished
advocate, but if you want to give us
any show to carry the hard money
States, stand by the platform as pre
sented.—Applause.—This is a com
promise, in which the East has yield
ed so much as to have already elicited
a strong protest, numerously sign
ed by the Eastern States. On this we
stand or fall. It’ you adopt the
amendment of the gentleman from
Ohio, then good-bye to your hopes.
The committee’s report, however,
gives us a living chance of success.
In conclusion, he demandod the cal!
of the States on the question.
Mr. Voorhees, of Indiana, took the
platform. He said Dorsheimer’s issue
was a false issue as stated by him.
There is no issue here of hard or soft
money. They were all iu favor of
resumption as soon as healthfully
practicable. Whoever desires it ear
lier desires it for some private, im
proper purpose. He earnestly op
posed any attempt at forced resump
tion, The law had been iu force two
years, and the country is two per
cent, farther from a gold standard
than it was when the law was passed.
The natural laws of legislation, if not
unwise, will soon cover the twelve
per cent, gap between gold and pa
per. Let us leave the question to
these natural laws. Referring to
Dorsheimer, ho said the West had
followed tho load of New York too
long already, and it is now time to
assert the power of the mighty Wost,
[Applause.]
Mr. Watterson, of Kontucky,urged
the policy of supporting the commit
tee’s report, signed by twenty-nine
of its members, after careful consid
eration, and asserting the impolicy
of overthrowing by tho excited ac
tion of the convention in its condi
tion of excitement that reported by
the thirty-two and not by tho eight
who have produced here the danger
ous question. He moved the previ
ous question.
Another scene of great confusion,
many delegates asking to be heard,
and one, from Pennsylvania, bitter
ly denouncing the gag law and in
sisting on tho freedom of debate.
After much confusion, tho .States
were called on Ewing’s motion strike
out the substitute. The choir an
nounced the vote to be, ayes 219,
nays 515—50 the amendment was re
jected.
The vote recurring on the adoption
of the plotform proper, the chair an
nounced the vote—yeas 051, nays 88,
so the report of the Platform Com
mittee was adopted.
THE ST. tons CONVENTION.
The Clonlnic Proceeding.*.
VOTES OF THE SOUTHERN STATES.
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Washington, June 29.—Tho South'
ern States on the first ballot votedUs
follows; Arkansas, Tilden 12; Ala
bama, Tilden 13, Hendricks 5, Han
cock 1; Georgia, Tilden 5, Hancock 1,
Bayard 16; Virginia, Tilden 17, Hen
dricks 1, Bayard 4; West Virginia,
Allen 10; Texas, I’ilden 10J; Hen
dricks 21, Hancock 2, Bayard 1; South
Carolina, Tilden 14; Misssouri, Til
don, 2, Hendricks 7, Allen 2, Broad
head 19; Tennessee, Hendricks 24;
Mississippi, Tilden 10; Louisiana,
Tilden 9, Hancock 5, Bayard 2; Mary
land, Tilden 11, Hendricks 3, Hancock
2; Florida, Tilden 8; North Carolina,
Tilden 9, Hendricks 4, Hancock 5,
Bayard 2.
On the 2d ballot North Carolina
changed to Tilden 19, Hancock 1;
Missouri changed to Tilden 16, Hen
dricks 14. Other States voted as fol
lows: Texas—Tilden 16; Louisiana—
Tilden 16; Maryland—Tilden 14, Hen
dricks 6; Georgia—Tilden 15, Bayard
7. The remaining Southern States
voted as on the first ballot.
THE VICE PRESIDENCY.
St. Louis, June 29.— The St. Louis
Convention was called to order at
10:20 a. m. The interest had evidently
greatly abated—many delegates had
left, leaving their alternates in their
places. The galleries contained but
few spectators. Prayer was offered
by the Episcopal Bishop, Robertson.
The Chair announced several tele
grams, which were read.
Hendricks was nominated by ac
clamation and with a rush.
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CONGEESSIONA L.
FRIDAY, JUNE 3®tn.
HOUSE.
Mr. Randall, from Committee on
Appropriations, reported a bill pro
viding for tho expenses of tho Gov
ernment. It provides that for ten
days after the 30th day of Juno, un
less the Appropriation bills shall
have previously passed, it shall bo
lawful for the several Departments
of the Government to use any unex
pended [balance which may exist for
the service of the current fiscal year.
The bill was passed.
Mr. Robbins of Pennsylvania, from
the Committee on Naval Affairs, re
ported a bill to pay Martha J. Costan
tho sum of fifteen thousand dollars
for tho uso of A. T. Light, invested
by her husband—passed.
Mi'. Banks, of Massachusetts, from
tho Committee on tho Centennial
Celebration, submitted a resolution
accepting tho invitation of Dr. John
B. Blake, President of tho Oddest In
habitants Association, to attend the
Centennial Celebration of American
Independence on July 4th, and di
recting the Speaker, to appoint a com
mittee of thirteen members to repre
sent tho House of Representatives at
said celebration—adopted.
Mr. O’Neill, of Pennsylvania, asked
leave to offer a resolution declaring
July 3d, 1876, a national holiday, and
that the offices and departments of
the Government bo closed upon that
day as upon the 4th of July.
Mr. Hurlbert, of Illinois, objected.
Mr. Boone, of Kentucky, as a priv
ileged question, called the attention
of tho House to the fact that on Juno
12th, Win. F. Shaffer was subpoenaed
to appear before the Committee on
Expenditures of the luterior Depart
ment. He had failed to respond and
his testimony was important. Tho
passage ot a resolution was recom
mended ordering a warrant to bo is
sued for Shaffer’s arrest. Tho reso
lution was adopted.
The House then resumed the con
sideration of the Geneva Award bill,
and Mr. Frye, of Maine, continued
his speech began yesterday.
The bill passed by the Senate this
morning, authorizing the Congress
ional Printer to continue the work
required by law in advance of the ap
propriations to be hereafter made for
the space of sixty days.
Mr. Singleton moved to amend by
limiting tho time to ten days, to con
form to the bill passed earlier in the
day.
The amendment was agreed to and
the bill passed as amended.
The House then proceeded to con
sider tho private bills agreed to in
committee of the whole, and several
were passed.
The Committee on the Centennial
reported adversely upon the resolu
tion to hold a session of Congress on
July 4th in Independence Hall,Phila
delphia. Laid on tho table tempora
rily.
A resolution formally accepting the
invitation to attend the 100th an
niversary celebration of American
Independence iu Independence
Square July 4tli, was adopted.
SENATE.
Mr. Anthony introduced a bill to
authorize the Congressional Printer
to continue work required by law in
advance of regular appropriations
for a period of sixty days—passed.
Mr. Cameron, from Committee on
Foreign Relations, reported the
House Hawaiian Treaty bill, and
asked that it be placed on the calen
dar.
Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, sug
gested theji’eferenco to committee on
Finance—so ordered.
Mr. Hamlin called up the bill to
amend sections 3,893 and 3,891 of the
Revised Statutes, providing a penal
ty for mailing obscene books and
other matters therein contained, and
prohibiting lottery circulars passing
through the mail.
Mr. Whyte, of Md., moved to strike
out the section relating to lotteries,
the same being legalized in some of
the States.
The motion to strike out the sec
ond section was rejected, and the bill
passed.
Mr. Morrill, of Maine, from the
Committee of Conference, on the Leg
islative Appropriation bill, submitted
a report that the committee had been
unable to agree. He said that in a
former conference the two principal
points of difference were in relation
to the reduction of salaries and tho
proposed changes in the civil service.
As to the amounts appropriated, the
Senate conference had in almost eve
ry instance given way to the House,
but acting on what they believed to
be the views of tho Senate, they had
resisted the proposition to compel the
Senate to exact as the law what they
hadjandjapproved. At the last
enee there had been an attempt so
overcome the difficulty. Tho HiSqsiA
had submitted a proposition that t>W
sums herein appropriated should b
in full for compensation for salaries
of the officers aud employees of the
Government respectively enumer
ated in the act, unless Congress
should hereafter make further
vision as herein specified; that
a joint commission of four—two frbin
each House—be appointed to inquire
into the proper number and salaries
of officers and employees of the Ex
ecutive officers of the Government,
and report their views to Congress on
the first of December noxt, with pow
er to sit during the recess of Con-
gress. The Senate conferees had
this with a proposition to strike out
tho section of tho bill and consent
ing to tho joint commission, with a
provision that any change made
should be construed to take effect
July Ist, 1876, and all persons affect
ed shall be demanded to accept and
agree to these terms. On these pro-
I positions no agreement was reached.
The report was adopted, and an
other conference orderod.
Mr. Sherman asked that tho House
bill extending the appropriations of
the year ending June 30, 1876, ten
days into tho succeeding fiscal year,
be taken from the table and referred.
The bill was referred. Tho Senato
then, at 1.10 p. m., took recess until
4 o’clock.
4 o’clock.— Mr. Sargent moved to
reconsider the vote by whioh the
Hawaiian Treaty bill was referred to
the Committee on Finance.
After some discussion, Mr. Sargent
said ho would enter tho motion now
and call it up at some future timo.
Mr. Morrill, of Maine, from the
Committee on Appropriations, re
ported back tho House bill to pro
vide temporarily for tho expenses of
the Government, with an amendment
that in case no sufficient balance re
mains at the close of tho fiscal year
to tho credit of auy fund, tho neces
sary amount is appropriated out of
the Treasury, to be used only for the
necessary expenditures, and no great
er amount shall he expended by any
department than the proportionate
sum of tho appropriation for the ap
propriation of the fiscal year ending
Juno 30,1870, iu the proportion that
ton days bear to the whole of the fis
cal year, and all expenditures under
this act shall bo charged to and de
ducted from the appropriation for
like service for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1870.
Some verbal amendments were
made, and the amendment reported
by tho committeo was agreed to, and
tho bill passed.
On motion of Mr. Windom, it was
ordered that tho Senate take a re
coss from live o’clock to half past
seven.
On motion of Mr. Windom the
Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was
taken up for consideration. M. Win
dom briefly explained the principal
items of Increase recommended by
tho committee. The bill
as it left tho House
appropriated, including unexpended
balance $15,250,731, and the commit
tee had added $1,781,603, making
the total $19,941,334. The total of
last year’s bill was $29,459,862 so that
this bill as it now stood was $9,518,-
528 less than last j oar.
Tho bill was then road by sections.
An amendment appropriating $50,-
000 to defray tho expenses of the
Belknap' impeachment trial was
agreed to.
At 5 p. m. tho Senato took a recess
till half-past seven.
TEI.EVItAPIIIE SI lIMAKY.
Gov. Hartarnft, of Pennsylvania,
lias caused the arrest of Edward
Guustor, ex-Ootmty Treasurer of
Luzerne county, W. W. Kew, form
erly a clerk in tho Auditor General’s
office, and Marshall Smith of the
Treasury Department, for forging
and falsifying tho returns of taxes
for licenses.
Several persons have been arrested
in Brooklyn for manufacturing and
passing counterfeit bills on the Mer
chants’ National Bank of New Bed
ford, Mass., Northampton National
Bank, anil Hampden National Bank
of Westfield, Mass.
—
Nnv York New*.
New York, June 30.—The Cotton
Exchange has closed until July sth.
Tho National Board of Trade to
day discussed, fast mail cheap trans
portation, &c.
The Dominion delegates left for
Philadelphia to-day.
Vanderbilt is much better to-day.
He ate a hearty breakfast and was
able to leave his room for some time.
John C. Schwartz, late secretary
and cashier of the up-town German
Savings Bank, whioh recently failed,
was arraigned before Recorder Hack
ett to-day, charged with embezzling
over $50,000 of the Bank’s funds. He
has just returned from Cuba. He ac
knowledges his guilt, and proposes
by turning State’s evidence to bring
other offenders connected with the
Bank to justice. Ho was remanded
to the Tombs.
Aliilianiit Si ChaUauoowa Itallroad.
London, June 30.— Since tho meet
ing this morning of the bondholders
of the Alabama & Chattanooga
Railroad a considerable sum of
money has been subscribed, and fur
titer amounts promised. A month’s
extension to complete payment has
been applied for.
Turkey and Hiikmlu.
St. Petersburg, June 30.— 1 tis
stated that tho Czar of Russia is
using his personal influence to dis
suade Prince Milan from invading
Turkish territory. The Prince re
plying said that the state of feeling.
in Hervia bound him to obey the
wishes of the people.
.• •
Kio fjrande Cotton.
New Orleans, Juno 27.—Two bales
new crop Rio Grande cotton, shipped
by steamer from Brownsville, wilt be
due Friday. It is understood one of
these bales will lie expressed, to be
exhibited at the Centennial, July 4th.
This cotton was raised by Mr. G. Bin
lay, who shipped part of the first re
ceipts last year. This early shipment
of Rio Grande cotton is not regarded
here as an indication of the forward
ness of tho general crop. First re
ceipts last year, July 15th.
WAMIIXUTON NEWS,
Washington, Juno 30.—A report
has been circulated to-day that Mr.
Pratt will soon resign tho position of
Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
but ho has not indicated any inten
tion of that kind.
It is reported that John] Morrisey,
aud other prominent Democrats con
template establishing in this city a
newspaper as tho central organ of tho
Democracy, with a capital of five
huudrod thousand dollars. There is
talk also about other persons start
ing a Democratic organ.
At the Cabiuot meeting to-day,
the President appointed Secretary
Cameron to assume temporarily the
duties of Secretary of tho Treasury.
It is believed that tho question of the
Secretaryship of tho Department
will be settled to-morrow or on Mon
day.
The Judiciary Connnitteo of the
House to-day, owing to the illness of
Mr. Blaine, decided to postpone the
investigation of the $04,000 bond
transaction of tho Fort Smith & Lit
tle Rock Railroad Company, of Ar
kansas, with tho Union Pacific Rail
road Company, until the 10th of July.
MR. RLAINE’S HEALTH.
A dispatch from Augusta, Maine
states that Mr. Blaine’s family phy
sician considers his nervous prostra
tion more severe than has been sup
posed, and prescribes absolute rest,
forbidding him oven to write a lotter.
He gives no encouragement that he
will be able to take any part in the
coming campaign.
The New York Press on the \oiiilun
tlOllM.
New York, Juno 29.—The World,
Dein , say Cincinnati gave the nation
a candidate with a purpose, but a
platform without meaning. St. Louis
responds with a candidate whose
name is the symbol of reform upon a
platform whicli means a peaceful rev
olution in the conduct of the Govern
ment.
The Slants Zelim% German, is en
tirely satislied with Tilden’s nomina
tion and platform, and will support
them cordially.
The Sun, Ind.,says it has been evi
dent Tiiden would be nominated for
a long time past. Wo none the less
thank God it is done.
The Herahl, Ind., says Tildon’s
nomination is not equivalent to an
election. He will have a hard battle.
Still the country lias reason to con
gratulate itself. The platforms of
both partiess aro so excel lout that,
whether Hayes or Tiiden be elected,
the country is equally sure of a good
government.
The Times, Rep., says whoever may
lie dissatisfied with the choice of Tii
den, the Republicans have no cause
to find fault with it. The nomina
tion means that the Democrats have
abandoned in advance ail hope of
carrying the October States, and place
their reliance on the solid South with
the addition of New York, New Jer
sey, Connecticut and the Pacific
States.
The Tribune, Lib., says the conven
tion fought bitterly but briefly, and
after filling all the St. Louis bar
rooms witli riot for two or three days
lias placed an admirable candidate
upon a bold platform.
Tlte Express, anti-Tilden Demo
cratic,speaking of the nomination of
Tiiden says: “In this State where ho
could help it, ho allowed no anti-
Tilden men to go to the State Con
vention or to the National Conven
tion, and therefore his following at
St. Louis did not, in our judgment,
fairly represent the Democratic sen
timent of the Empire State. We
have given the freest possible ex
pression to our views and have noth
ing to take back as to the policy of
this nomination. We shall follow a
Democratic flag with a Democratic
platform and Democratic nomina
tion. Others may follow the man,
the organization and the machine.
It is not a good sign, in our eyes,
when Republicans rejoice over and
contribute to make a Democratic
nomination. We shall hope for the
best, and work for the best, not per
mitting disappointment to move us
one hair’s breadth in the discharge
of a great public duty. If the Dem
oeiatic party wins it must be upon
its platform of principles and the
pledge which its candidate has al
ready made, that lie is singled out
less for himself than the good for
tune that has made liiin tho person
ilination of reform.’’
New York, June 29. — Tho Cincin
nati Enquirer prefers Tiiden to
Hayes.
llemlrlckH ami inn Nomination.
St. Lodis, June 29.—The following
dispatch has been sent Gov. Hen
dricks : “The Convention has nom
inated you by an unanimous vote for
the office of Vice Presidency of the
United States. Wo urge your ac
ceptance. Wo hope to be at your
city at 5:30 to-morrow evening.”
("Signed)
Augustus Schell,
John Kelly.
Indianapolis, Juno 29.—Gov. Hen
dricks having positively declined to
be a candidate for Vice President, in
repeated telegrams to his friends last
night, will not consider the subject of
acceptance of tho nomination made
to-day until the return of the Indiana
delegation from the Convention.
• - •
F. W. Loudenber, No. 40 Randolph
street, keeps a lino stock of cigars, tobac
cos and smokers’ articles. Everything in
the i iuo fl rst-class. j un26 tf
• • _____
AT THE ( AMU HUT MOO ll* HOUSE
COLUMBUS, LA.
Now stock bleached shootings.
Brown balbreggan hose.
Solid-colored, silk-embroidered balbreg
gan hose, in cardinal, navy and chocolate.
Solid black dross linen.
Large lot new prints, at 5 cents.
Men’s British / hose; all numbers.
Fine apartment of buttons,in silk, pearl,
ivory, &c.
Full lino of corsets, SOcts., $l.OO, $1.50,
$2.25, $2.50.
All grades of alpacas at a bargain.
Ladies’ silk umbrellas, closing out at re
duced prices.
Tho stock will bo replenished weekly,
with such novelties as may appear in
Northern markets.
je!s tf .1. S. Jones.
The Weather To-Day.
Washington, June 30.—For Satur
day, in the South Atlantio and East
ern Gulf States, southerly winds, sta
tionary or lower temperature and
pressure, oloudy and rainy weather.
For Western Gulf Statos, falling ba
rometer, increasing southerly winds,
slight changes in temperature, cloudy
and rainy woather, and possibly fol
lowed in the westorn portion by
cooler northerly winds and rising
barometer,
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
BY TELEGRAPH.
%
COTTON 111 A R K ETS..
JUNE 39, 187 C.
Liverpool: Dull.
Receipts 8,900, American 10,000
Mid. Uplands 6 Mid Orleans tjj
July and August delivery from Sa*
vannah or Charleston, Low Mid. 5 15-16
New York: Dull.
Ordinary 8 9-16 Good Ordinary 9 15-16
Middling Orleans 12 3-16 Middling
Alabama 12£ Low Middling II 1-16
Middling Uplands 12
Futures: Sales
July, 11 29-32.(3) 15-16
August, 11 31-32(5’12
September 12 15-16(3>2] 32
October, 11 23-32(3$
November,! I 19-32(3$
December, 11 19-32(3)
January, 1877,
February, “ 1 1 29-32(3)31-32
March, ‘ 12 1-16(3)
April, 12 7*32(3)9-32
May, 12^(3)13-32
Savannah: Receipts 68 Ex
ports—to Great Britain to Conti
nent Coastwise 776 Middling
11
New' Oi leans: Receipts 441. Exports
—to Great Biitain 14 to Continent 246 to
Coastwise 108.
Middling 11;}.
NO. 118
WKNTEKX PHODUCE MAKKETH.
JUNE 30.
Chicago.
Flour Extra quiet and unchanged.
Wheat firm. No. 2, spring 1 USJ
July.
Cofn steady 4rtj cash.
Oats dull. No. 2 mixed 30(9 cash
June.
Barley dull 58.
Rye quiet 6b J
Mess Fork quiello 22 .
Lard, tierce—“ 11.25.
Whiskey 1.10.
St. Louis.
Flour unchanged.
Wheat firm. No. 2. red winter 1.56
bid cash.
Corn dull at bid cash.
Whiskey steady 1.11
Oats 20
Fork 20.(3)
Lard 11.50.
Cincinnati.
Wheat—
Mess F0rk—520(3)20.25.
Lard in tierces—firm prime steam llj
city kettle 13^
Whiskey—l.lo.
NEW YORK MONEY MARKET.
Wall St., 6p. m Money closed |
Gold i.l2g. Stocks closed generally
higher.
WEEKLY COTTON STATES!ENT
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 30.
Sales of the week 35,000 bales.
Speculation 2,000; Exports 4,000.
Forwarded direct to spinner* 7-,WO.
Stock 1,012,000, American 580,000
Receipts of the week 27,000
American 10,000.
Actual exports 6,000.
Stock afloat 397,000, American 110,000
Sales of American for week 23,000
Fly Traps! Fly Trap*!!
The best ever invented—clump.
For sale by
jet) tf J. 11. Hamilton.
—
The American People.
No poople in the world suiter as much
with Dyspepsia as Americans. Although
years <sf experience in medicine had failed
to accomplish a certain and sure remedy
for this disease and its effects, such as
Sour Stomach Heart-Burn, Water-brash,
Sick Headache, Costiveness, palpitation
of the Heart, Liver Complaint, coining up
of the food, low spirits, general debility,
etc., yet since the introduction of Green’s
August Flower wo believe there is no case
of Dyspepsia that cannot be immediately
relieved. 30,000 dozen sold last year with
out one case of failure reported. Go to
your Druggists, Brooks fc Thornton, and
get a Sample Bottle for 10 cents and try
it. Two doses will relieve you!* Regular
size 75 cents.
clAwtf
LINT OF LETT FUN.
The following is the list of letters remaining in
the postollice at Columbus, (Ga.,) June 24th.
Alexander W F Mcßride W M
Allen V A M. Johnston Miss Carrie M
Barnes miss Fannie Mcßride W M
Berg A Mcßey miss M E
Bihell H MeCloudomrsE
Brigman miss Martha McCarthy I>
Baracone R A McCoy mrs Willie
Carter W H McCrary G W
Coatts mrs FrauciH Malone mrs U P
Cole J Miles Polly
Daniel miss Penny Namand mrs M B
Davis M (col) Pittman mrs Brasilia
Dismake miss Honnio Uausome 8 B
Donahue 1J Reed mrs Peggy
Flewellen It ltyals miss Lizzie
Falsom B Hautless miss Mary
Garret mrs E Shippy J It
Garno mrs Nannie Shirley mrs M A
Galvin P Stephens F
Gentry G Taylor miss Cora
Gordy julbs Lizzio Terry T
Hariss mrs Sarah Thomas M
llulsy J H Tlson miss Sallie
Heard miss Mollie Thomas O
Herrnon J Turner miss Lucy
Henderßon miss Martha Tyler mrs Rebecca E
Hicks C C Walston J S
Howard mrs Margret Ware John
Iverson mrs Lissie Walker S W W
Jenkins John Whisttus mrs Nancy
Johnson I’ Wilames G (col)
Johnson O C Williams mrs Anna
Johnston mrs Carrie M Woodruff mr
W. H. JOHNSON, P. M.
NOTICE.
Office Mobile k Girard Railroad, )
Columbus, Ga., June 1, 1876. )
THE Annual Convention of the Stockholders of
the Mobile k Girar t Railroad will be held at
the depot, in Girard, Alabama, on Wednesday,
July 6th, at‘ten o’clock a. m., when an election
for a President and six Directors will take place.
Stockholders, with their families, will be passed
free to Columbus from the 3d to the 6th, inclu
sive, and returned any day until the Bth, inclu
sive. Certificates of stock must bo exhibited to
the conductor by the stockholders as evidence of
their being entitled to pass free with their fami
lies; and a proxy must exhibit certificate of
stock and power of attorney, otherwise fare will
be required in both cases. By order.
je3 td ,T.
A CARD.
TO all who are suffering from the errors and
indiscretions of youth, nervous weakness,
early decay, loss of manhood, Ac., I will send a
receipe that will cure you, FREE OF CHARGE.
This great remedy was discovered by a missions
arv in South Amorica. Send a self-addressed
envelope to the Rkv. Joseph T. Inman Station
D, Bible House, New York City. march‘2 6m
